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High School ESL Students Learner Support. VT. VOICETHREAD. Mary Ewald. What is Voicethread?. No software to install Use voice: mic or telephone Use text, audio file, or video file Link to URLs. Doodle tool to point out target object (s) Moderate comments Multiple Identities
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High School ESL StudentsLearner Support VT VOICETHREAD Mary Ewald
What is Voicethread? • No software to install • Use voice: mic or telephone • Use text, audio file, or video file • Link to URLs • Doodle tool to point out target object (s) • Moderate comments • Multiple Identities • Embed or export as movie files • Free or Paid accounts Voicethread Tutorial Mary Ewald
"The average science course requires a student to learn the same number of new vocabulary words he or she would learn in a foreign-language course." (Roots-Bernstein, 2011)
Voicethreads by Mary Ewald and The Plant Cell Photosynthesis • Pronunciation of vocabulary • Identify vocabulary. Answer in complete sentences. • Listen. Read. Talk. Write more sentences. • Words build sentences. Sentences build paragraphs. • Writers produce 'sensible narratives.'
More resources at DIIGO Voicethread is the section I designed for a group project in CEP 810 with (Jenny Hancock, Suzanne Reinhardt, Tara Swanepoel), Web 2.0 Writing Across the Curriculum